2011 World Series of Poker

Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Oleksii Kovalchuk
Winning Hand
77
Prize
$689,739
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$3,134,950
Entries
1,378
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Affleck Chips Up

Level 3 : 75/150, 0 ante

A player in middle position raised to 350 and Matt Affleck called from the button. The flop ran out {4-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{3-Hearts}. Affleck's opponent bet 650 and Affleck reraised to 1,800. His opponent reraised to 3,600 and Affleck pushed all in. His opponent called.

Affleck: {k-Hearts}{j-Hearts}
Opponent: {k-Spades}{k-Diamonds}

The {9-Hearts} hit on the turn and the {8-Clubs} fell on the river. Affleck now sits with around 20,000 in chips.

Tags: Matt Affleck

Elezra Over 20,000

The player under the gun raised it up to 450 preflop and Eli Elezra called from the big blind.

The flop came {j-Spades}{9-Clubs}{6-Clubs} and Elezra checked. The UTG player bet 525 and Elezra check-raised to 1,925. The player then re-raised all in and Elezra called showing {6-Spades}{6-Diamonds} to be ahead with his set against the UTG player's {k-Diamonds}{j-Clubs}

The turn and river came {k-Hearts}{a-Diamonds} to give the player two pair, but it wasn't enough and Eli took the chips and moved up to 22,000

Player Chips Progress
Eli Elezra il
Eli Elezra
22,000
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer

Tags: Eli Elezra

Amazon Room Tables

Level 3 : 75/150, 0 ante

Of the 19 tables that started play in the Amazon Room, only a handful remain. Still in the Amazon room are Nenad Medic, Isaac Baron and Chad Brown.

Check, Call, Check, Call, Check, Fold, Win

Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari

Antonio Esfandiari played a big pot against a player at his table that put him pretty close to the top of our counts.

On a flop of {a-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{3-Diamonds} a player in early position checked and Esfandiari bet out 825. The player just elected to call.

The turn was the {6-Diamonds} and the early position player checked again. This time Esfandiari bet out 1,800 and the player just called.

The river was the {8-Hearts} and, you guessed it, the early position player checked again. This time Esfandiari put out a huge bet of 4,200 and his opponent gave it up. Esfandiari is up to 18,000 after the hand

Player Chips Progress
Antonio Esfandiari us
Antonio Esfandiari
18,000
10,500
10,500
WSOP 3X Winner

Tags: Antonio Esfandiari

Schoenberg Picks Up a Pot

Level 3 : 75/150, 0 ante

Erica Schoenberg picked up a nice pot when she started the action by raising to 300 on the button. The player from the small blind made the call and the flop ran out {7-Clubs}{j-Clubs}{5-Clubs}.

The player in the small blind checked and Schoenberg made it 500. Her opponent called and the turn brought the {9-Diamonds}. Her opponent bet 850 and Schoenberg reraised to 2,700. After tanking for a bit her opponent made the call.

The {j-Diamonds} hit on the river. The player in the small blind checked and Schoenberg moved all in. Her opponent quickly folded and Schoenberg took down the pot.

Tags: Erica Schoenberg

Aldridge Gets Some Back

We reported earlier that Aldridge was losing chips, well, now he has some back after this hand and is up to 9,500

On a flop of {7-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{5-Clubs} a player in late position bet out 200 and Aldridge on the button called. The turn as the {A-Diamonds} and both players checked.

The river was the {5-Diamonds} and the late position player bet 500. Aldridge re-raised to 1,300 and the player folded.

Player Chips Progress
Ken Aldridge us
Ken Aldridge
9,500
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Ken Aldridge

Sorry Mr. Williams

Level 3 : 75/150, 0 ante
David Williams' stare is menacing.
David Williams' stare is menacing.

We're never happy to hear a player has busted. But David Williams was seated at table Black 31 in the two seat, which was directly in front of our desk. Williams was in a few hands against the five seat and even though he wasn't staring us down, we were right off the shoulder of the five seat player. We almost folded our laptops under the weight of Williams' stare.

Williams tweeted a pic of his opponent knocking him out with a king high straight flush.

Tags: David Williams